On Friday 21 May 2004 23:41, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * Roy Vegard Ovesen -- Friday 21 May 2004 23:26: > > This @() function proved to be very powerfull and it made creating scales > > very easy. > > I changed this to a unary operator #. So one can now write #10 and metapost > will replace this by the angle that represents the scale value of 10% RPM. > > > I can see this function modified to create non-linear scales > > (exponential, logaritmic ...), scales that go counter-clockwise ... > > Yeah. I uploaded a new version that contains a weird ASI with non-linear > mapper #n. Looks strange. No idea what they had in mind.
I guess that when one wants to monitor for example the approach speed it makes sense to have greater scale resolution around the approach speed. This document contains a lot of MetaPost hints and methods, and is a nice supplenet to the user manual: http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/metafun-p.pdf -- Roy Vegard Ovesen _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
